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While hitting the slopes at Lake Tahoe this winter, scientists from the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center are encouraging people to hit the beach, too — and record what they see there on the “Citizen Science Tahoe” mobile app.

Irrigation leaders complied with California open-meetings law when they agreed to sell Stanislaus River water to Fresno-area buyers at a Tri-Dam meeting in Manteca, an attorney representing the Oakdale Irrigation District said in a written response to a customer’s formal complaint.

Congratulations to San Diego for finally completing your 50 million-gallon-per-day Carlsbad desalination plant, scheduled for opening Dec. 14. When project developer Poseidon and the San Diego County Water Authority started this journey 18 years ago, Australia had no major seawater desalination plants.

With some in these parts seemingly seeing every overnight drizzle as a harbinger of vast El Niño downpours, perhaps it’s understandable that Southern Californians dream of soon being freed from drought-induced watering restrictions.